How Can You Bloom in the Desert?

Why did the monks and hermits went to the desert? To run away from the world? Or did they go there to find something deeper in life and in themselves. The desert can be a powerful experience. It can strip us down. It can also be a place where we confront our inner demons that haunts us. The desert can purify us and bring out the greatness that lies in us. In the desert one is forced to live on the basics. You are stripped down to all excessive luxuries. You learn to live simply and be more grateful with what you have. The silence of the desert takes away all the noise and distractions you fill yourself. There you are able to listen to yourself. In the desert you will find who you are and who you are not. It brings the best and worst in you. It is a place where you will find your weakness but also your strengths. Because the desert is a barren place, you cannot escape from the inner demons that you run away from. There you have the opportunity to confront them and defeat them. The Desert is Place of Preparation. John the Baptist lived in the desert before he preached. Jesus also lead by the Spirit went to the desert for 40 days before He started his ministry. Now many of us cannot afford to the desert. But we can enter into a desert experience where we are. Trials are desert experience. Trial makes us feel so barren, so alone. Our sufferings in life can make us feel we are living in the desert. The Blooming Desert It’s amazing, the difference a drop of rain can make. Almost overnight, it seems, the desert springs to life. The seeds that lie dormant suddenly are triggered to action. Flowers of different colors and kind suddenly bloom out of no where. Even a couple of days' rain is enough to transform the landscape. It can also be true for us. We need to enter the silence and barrenness of the desert to trigger our talents and gifts. Sometimes we need trials for us to bloom. So let your desert experiences produce blooming in you.

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